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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 280, 21 March 1929, Page 5

The next time you say you have “ slept like a log,” don’t he surprised if someone contradicts you and tells you that you awoke at least 30 times. The averaje sleeper, it is said, awakens to a part of his eni vironment ab-ut 35 times in an ordinary night, and men are usually more restless than women. “ When a person faiis asleep he loses most of his personal dignity. He begins to behave very much like a vegetable, and looks the part,” says a research investigator.

Thus the Clutha Leader regarding the recent Invercargill case: “if a doctor makes a mistake it’s covered up with 6x2 cubic feet of earth. If a clergyman makes a mistake, it doesn’t matter, because the congregation, ten to one, doesn’t know any difference. If a plumber makes a mistake, he simply does the work again and charges double. If a lawyer makes a mistake, especially if it’s a big one, chances are he gets a lot of publicity, if an elecciician makes a mistake, and ail the power board’s poles were to fall down an explanation in a few technical terms would be sufficient. But if a reporter makes a mistake—£9oo i”